Duo-Divers

Another Spiny Spider Crab (Maja squinado) common enough down south on on the West Coast of Scotland but not so many around the Farne Islands. It can be a bit disconcerting when they stand up suddenly out of the dirt......

A colour shot of another breech assembly

A section of the bottom of the hull (I guess) which is double bottomed, this is certainly from MV Yewglen and quite large, maybe 10 yards square

I messed around with the images as the three larger holes do have a look of 'The Scream' by Munch, what do you think?

All turned and time to polish!

More bits from the broken up boiler

Wrecky bits against the reef- face

A Northern Prawn (Padalus borealis) sitting on a Dead-mans finger (Alcyonium digitatum), when you slow down and l-o-o-k there are loads of these prawns all over the sites.

More bits in the jumble of machinery

Large areas of the wreck are now down to the ribs, as can be seen on this shot

Debris all around and most unidentifiable, in this case it's a part of a mast or kingpost arrangement, I think!

Inside the plane

And the business end of the same gun, in this case a crab has set-up shop but most of the time they are home to conger eels!

A whelk (Buccinum undatum) there are loads of shells around the site and quite a few live ones. They are a popular food in some parts of the country and taste like eating rubber.

More shots of the debris field, later in the year so a 'better' water colour!

A well known 'lair' and a well known Blue Fiend or Lobster (Homarus gammarus) I've had him out a couple of times and I guess he weighs in at about five pounds!

Skylights rather than portholes but it would be nice.....wouldn't it!?!

More scrap.....I love it!!

Another partially cleaned brass breech block.......

Holes in the front of the fin, makes things much easy to put on and take off as the water isn't hydraulic'd and can squirt out when you put the fun in and enter when you are taking them off.

Engine parts sticking out of the sand, I assume these held on the cylinders........

Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!

It was a bait-ball but obviously not sandeels, on closer examination they appeared to be Sprat (Sprattus sprattus). Locally they would be called Brit which is a catch all name for immature herring, mackeral and sprat which form a pillar to the local food chain.

The same tower slightly further out, the slits are located around the entire diameter of the tower to allow the crew to see any assailent and take appropriate actions.